University of Utah Provost Mitzi Montoya announced today that Associate Dean Pearl Sandick has accepted an appointment as interim dean of the College of Science. Sandick will begin working in this new role on March 15, 2025, and will continue to serve until a new dean is appointed. Montoya will work with the college before […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah will be hosting this year’s No Stone Unturned conference – The Search for New Physics: Leaving No Stone Unturned – from March 10th through March 14th.. This is the second in a series of workshops that gather leading experts from around the world to discuss recent developments and new directions related to the search […]
Read MoreThis article originally appeared in @TheU. At the start of the year, the European Commission established the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), furthering its mission to become the world’s largest and most powerful observatory for gamma-ray astronomy. The creation of the CTAO-ERIC will enable the observatory’s construction to […]
Read MoreThis article was originally posted by the University of Utah’s College of Engineering. For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But traditional lenses have a major drawback—the more powerful they need to be, the bulkier and heavier they become. Scientists have long searched […]
Read MoreThis article was originally posted by the University of Utah’s College of Science. University of Utah astronomer Tanmoy Laskar and his team have been awarded $60,000 in direct costs to support research through the first year of the Scialog: Early Science with LSST. The three-year initiative aims to advance the foundational science needed to realize […]
Read MoreThis article by Lisa Potterwas originally published in @TheU and was adapted from a release by Josie Fenske at NSF NOIRLab. Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a team of scientists, led by University of Utah postdoctoral researcher Ragadeepika Pucha, have compiled the largest sample ever of dwarf galaxies that host an […]
Read MoreThis article by Michael Jacobsen was originally published by the U’s College of Science. This includes the meticulous organization that goes into every project, the countless sleepless nights seeking their completion and the individual lives supporting every major breakthrough. Teams are valued within scientific communities, but when it comes to broader public recognition it’s rare […]
Read MoreThis article originally appeared on kcpw. Please visit their site to listen to Dr. Matthews’s full discussion on Cool Science Radio. You know you’ve detected something big when you name it the “Oh My God Particle.” In 1991, the most powerful cosmic ray ever was detected at the University of Utah’s Fly’s Eye observatory at the U.S. […]
Read MoreTino Nyawelo, Physics and Astronomy, is one of five faculty members named by University of Utah President Taylor Randall as 2025-26 Presidential Societal Impact Scholars for exemplary public engagement, from eliminating health inequities to helping communities plan and prepare for disasters and mentoring STEM education students. Nyawelo is a professor (lecturer) in the Department of […]
Read MoreThis article by David Pace originally appeared in @TheU. Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question more than a decade ago. Commenced in 2013, the Satellites Around Galactic Analogs (SAGA) Survey studies galaxy systems like the Milky Way. Now, the SAGA […]
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